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Al Gore: Our political ideology is in our DNA

“I think, first of all, scientists now know that there is, in human nature, a divide between what we sometimes call ‘liberals’ and ‘conservatives,’” Gore said on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe.” “And it gives an advantage, you can speculate, to the human species to have some people who are temperamentally inclined to try to change the future, experiment with new things, and others who are temperamentally inclined to say, ‘Wait a minute, not too fast, let’s make sure we don’t do anything rash here.’”

But Gore, now a climate change activist, said that when those “natural tendencies” combine with political or religious ideology, they can “get out of hand.”

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But Gore, now a climate change activist, said that when those “natural tendencies” combine with political or religious ideology, they can “get out of hand.”

Yes, such things like that might prevent someone who spent the last decade screaming about global warming from selling his network to a news organization primarily paid for with petro-dollars for big bucks.

This whole theory is covered in complete detail by “Anonymous Conservative” both on the blog and in the book “The Evolutionary Psychology Behind Politics: How Conservatism and Liberalism Evolved Within Humans”.

Conservatives will like it (although at $25 for the paperback, it’s kinda pricey) and Liberals will do what they usually do when presented with facts: either ignore them, or explode in irrational rage.

Anyway, if you’ve ever wondered if there’s a biological basis for political leaning, or why people get more conservative as they grow older, or why an event like getting robbed can suddenly make someone become conservative (prime example: Dennis Miller after 9/11), or wondered how conservatives can be pro-competition yet simultaneously more altruistic (amount given to charity) and more patriotic (favoritism to in-group) — this book explains that.